I have also thought that we are an international list, using a sort of
international English, which is quite similar to native English ?
But: I do not think that anyone suggests that a non-German using his/her
flawed German is actually using an nternational variety of German. My
impression is that the number of native speakers of German (yes, I know,
let's not talk about the varieties and dialects of German...) exceeds that
of non-native speakers of German, while with English it is the other way
round.
Tadeusz Piotrowski
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-corpora@lists.uib.no
> [mailto:owner-corpora@lists.uib.no] On Behalf Of Lou Burnard
> Sent: Friday, March 03, 2006 11:06 AM
> To: corpora@lists.uib.no
> Cc: Kate Beeching; Briony Williams
> Subject: Re: [Corpora-List] 'Standard European English' ?
>
> Paul Buitelaar wrote:
>
> > Parveen and all, as far as I know the expression 'Standard European
> > English' is sometimes used to refer to British English (as
> it differs
> > from US English).
>
> Nice to know that us Brits are thought of as forming the
> standard for European (i.e. not US) English, but I rather doubt it.
>
>
> >
> > The current discussion on the list of 'Eurospeak' examples
> however is
> > interesting
> >
>
> Presumably there are plenty of equally hilarious examples of
> non-native
> French speakers' oddities in French, non-native German speakers'
> oddities in German, etc. But this being a resolutely
> anglophone list, we
> don't hear about them.
>
> Lou
>
>
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